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Eugen RochkoI think it's glorious that there's now a Mastodon server operated by people who used to work for Twitter (macaw.social). I could have never imagined it when I started in 2016.
Tristen Grant π@Gargron Have .social domains seen in increase in sales in the past month+?
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Shane Lord@Gargron Itβll be interesting to see if they start contributing to the development.
Travis@shanelord @Gargron We've been looking into that, possibly.
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Chix@shanelord @Gargron Given enough time it's gonna work better than the already established Twitter.
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@Gargron that's pretty neat π
Sei Kay@Gargron How the tides have turned... so fast to this degree.
Screw Elon honestly!
Nisa (she/her) 
@Gargron itβs only mid November! Looking forward to whatβs to come in the next few weeks. With the holidays coming up, free time to check out mastodon 
Clive ThompsonIt is pretty rad, eh?
Mike Murphy
Laura Kosloff
parkplusplus@Gargron (throws away i love macaw shirts) I was misled.
Carrie Randolph
Ernie Smith@Gargron A signifier of a job well done.
Dam@Gargron I really hope you're talking to them. They'll definitely have valuable experience that could be applied to Mastodon and the Fediverse as a whole.
rob@Gargron I think it's glorious that you referred to it as Twitter instead of birdsite.
Jeff Jarvis@Gargron Beautiful.
Markygooner@Gargron That's fantastic well done π
Virtue signal ππππΊπΈ πΊπ¦OTOH, we now have millions of Twitter users decrying how insufferable it is to choose a site among a list of domains; to not cater to the singular-ized App Store experience of App = Service.
The crystallization of that kind of sentiment could bring down the Internet, and I'd bet actors like Elon Musk are already positioning themselves to exploit it for nefarious ends.
RickyWith technology, there is always the question of irreducible complexity. You cannot use the Internet responsibly without navigating different sites. If too many ppl are insulated from that "cryptic" reality, the structure will come crashing down.
Ppl who demand that fleets of powerful machines answer their whims under those conditions are running with knives that are pointed in all directions. There is a line between convenient and dangerously dumbed-down.
It isn't elitism. Its expecting drivers to know what road signs mean before they step on the gas. #internetliteracy
@tasket @Gargron βKnow what server you want to join before you think of signing upβ? You should start a restaurant telling people they canβt come if they have any questions because the menu/server list is *perfect* and no one could ever be confused because itβs a *perfect* list of servers. π
berkes π π π π±@Rickster @tasket oh. Restaurants.
Those places that no-one ever visits because they then "have to choose what restaurant to go eat at"?
People are finding their way into the fediverse just fine. And it really doesn't matter if Joe or Karen join. If they are well served and happy at twitter or Facebook: why?
All that matters for the success of the fediverse is that two people communicate over it. Nothing else matters. That's all that is needed to call this "a success"